Landscape Section - Conference and AGM 2006
'New perspectives on the Saxon settlement of Hampshire'
Professor Tom James, University of Winchester
Abstract
The conquerors' domesday books for Hampshire and Winchester provide early evidence
of incomers to our county. From the eleventh and twelfth century Normans and Jews and ,
from the thirtheenth and fourteenth centuries Flemings and Italians, from the fifteenth Welsh
all show up in the historical record. To these immigrants can be added English, Scots and Irish.
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw French and Walloon migrants take centre stage
along with a tide of Tudor poor and war-weary in the period of the Civil War. From the
eighteenth to the twentieth centuries quantification becomes increasingly easy and we can
see more clearly the kaleidoscope of migrants to Hampshire - and emigrants also. There's plenty
to say, and 50 minutes will take us through artisan and linguistic skills to those Hampshire
specialities which have been exported worldwide - not least the the cricket whose cradle lies
at Hambledon.
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